If you're using GDM as the desktop manager (the default, but you might've been saddled with XDM or KDM), then the setting for the entire desktop environment can be toggled from there, under "Languages". This is currently only possible thru GDM, so you'll definitely need to do it that way; however, after switching over to it you should only need to log out of the desktop, change locales, and then log back in to have a full Spanish or English environment.

You'll need, however, to add localization packages for a lot of the big programs, like OpenOffice, Firefox, and so on; depending on the distribution you're using, you might need to alias these for each individual user; on most, though, it's possible to set their preferred locale and language. Often times these can be set from within the program itself, but you might need to add patches, i18n packages, or some other sort of tweak.

At any rate, each user has a folder called ./i18n. In there, you should be able to set user-specific locale information, including such things as keyboard maps, fonts, and so on. You should make sure that the desired locales are first made available in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n folder, which will guarantee that these environments are available to be used for whatever user wants to call them.

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